NVadsA10 v5-series

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Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Windows VMs ✔️ Flexible scale sets ✔️ Uniform scale sets

The NVadsA10v5-series virtual machines are powered by NVIDIA A10 GPUs and AMD EPYC 74F3V(Milan) CPUs with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz, all-cores peak frequency of 4.0 GHz. With NVadsA10v5-series Azure is introducing virtual machines with partial NVIDIA GPUs. Pick the right sized virtual machine for GPU accelerated graphics applications and virtual desktops starting at 1/6th of a GPU with 4-GiB frame buffer to a full A10 GPU with 24-GiB frame buffer.

Each virtual machine instance in NVadsA10v5-series comes with a GRID license. This license gives you the flexibility to use an NV instance as a virtual workstation for a single user, or 25 concurrent users can connect to the VM for a virtual application scenario.


ACU: Not Available
Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Ultra Disks: Supported (Learn more about availability, usage and performance)
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
VM Generation Support: Generation 1 and 2
Accelerated Networking: Supported
Ephemeral OS Disks: Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Size vCPU Memory: GiB Temp storage (SSD) GiB GPU partition GPU memory: GiB Max data disks Max uncached disk throughput: IOPS/MBps Max NICs / Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_NV6ads_A10_v5 6 55 180 1/6 4 4 6400 / 100 2 / 5000
Standard_NV12ads_A10_v5 12 110 360 1/3 8 4 12800 / 200 2 / 10000
Standard_NV18ads_A10_v5 18 220 720 1/2 12 8 25600 / 384 4 / 20000
Standard_NV36ads_A10_v5 36 440 1440 1 24 16 51200 / 768 4 / 40000
Standard_NV36adms_A10_v5 36 880 2880 1 24 32 51200 / 768 8 / 80000
Standard_NV72ads_A10_v5 72 880 2880 2 48 32 80000 / 1200 8 / 80000

1 NVadsA10v5-series VMs feature AMD Simultaneous multithreading Technology

2 The actual GPU VRAM reported in the operating system will be a little less due to Error Correcting Code (ECC) support.

Supported operating systems and drivers

To take advantage of the GPU capabilities of Azure NVadsA10v5-series VMs, NVIDIA GPU drivers must be installed.

If you choose to install NVIDIA GPU drivers manually, see N-series GPU driver setup for Windows or N-series GPU driver setup for Linux for supported operating systems, drivers, installation, and verification steps.

Size table definitions

  • Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.

  • Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.

  • Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.

  • To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

  • Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth.

    Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines. To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).

Other sizes and information

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For more information on disk types, see What disk types are available in Azure?

Next steps

Learn more about how Azure compute units (ACU) can help you compare compute performance across Azure SKUs.